email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

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"Spin" <Spin@invalid.com> wrote in
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> Gurus,
>
> Is there a way to configure a newsreader to send you an
> email notification when someone responds to your post in a
> newsgroup?

No. You can provide a real email address in Reply-to and ask to
be replied to via email but such requests are usually rejected.

If you use a REAL newsreader like XNews, any replies to your
posts are highlighted and "jumped to" when you update the group
headers. You can't ask for much more than that.


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email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

Gurus,

Is there a way to configure a newsreader to send you an email notification
when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

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Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

Which newsreader? How can the newsreader "know" if it doesn't sync with the
newsserver?
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Spin wrote:
> Is there a way to configure a newsreader to send you an email notification
> when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

"Spin" <Spin@invalid.com> wrote in news:6jo2jsF49lhnU1@mid.individual.net:

> Gurus,
>
> Is there a way to configure a newsreader to send you an email
> notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?
>
The replier does it by reply by mail instead of reply in the group. A
pointless task that shouldn't be used in such a group as this IMHO.


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Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

"Spin" <Spin@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:6jo2jsF49lhnU1@mid.individual.net...

> Is there a way to configure a newsreader to send you an email
> notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

No.

But if you use Outlook Express, while in its newsreader mode, simply
press Ctrl+H. Then you'll see if there are any new responses in threads
you have been participating in.
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

Some of us prefer top-posting.
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:08:16 -0400, "Spin" <Spin@invalid.com> wrote:

>Gurus,
>
>Is there a way to configure a newsreader to send you an email notification
>when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

Why ask here? This has nothing to do with XP.

Ask elsewhere
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

Unknown wrote:

Admission of defeat noted.
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

"Damian" <nospam@rabid-dog.net> wrote in message
news:gbh285$7cq$1@news.tornevall.net...

> Unknown wrote:
> [blank post]

> Admission of defeat noted.

Well, at least you didn't top-post. ;-)
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

You all REALLY have to get over your hang up regarding top-posting. Extreme
type-A personality meets anonymous USENET user = angry and childish
responses. Personally, I don't do it anymore myself, cuz I don't want to
hear people complain, but the MS Outlook Express default is to top-post the
reply. If the question was short as well as the answer, the point is moot.
The reader will differentiate between the OP and the reply by ">"
characters...
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

Spin wrote:
> You all REALLY have to get over your hang up regarding top-posting.
> Extreme type-A personality meets anonymous USENET user = angry and
> childish responses. Personally, I don't do it anymore myself, cuz I
> don't want to hear people complain, but the MS Outlook Express
> default is to top-post the reply.

Install OE-Quotefix.
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

It was a joke, son.

"Spin" <Spin@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:6k8borF6ghmpU1@mid.individual.net...
> You all REALLY have to get over your hang up regarding top-posting.
> Extreme type-A personality meets anonymous USENET user = angry and
> childish responses. Personally, I don't do it anymore myself, cuz I
> don't want to hear people complain, but the MS Outlook Express default
> is to top-post the reply. If the question was short as well as the
> answer, the point is moot. The reader will differentiate between the
> OP and the reply by ">" characters...
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

"Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> wrote in message
news:eGMH13SIJHA.2256@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> It was a joke, son.

It wasn't aimed at you Daave, so much as it was to the others. I don't mind
a "please consider bottom-posting" suggestion every now and then, but a
childish rant about it using up valuable USENET space is annoying.
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

"Spin" <Spin@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:6k972sF6obp3U1@mid.individual.net...
> "Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> wrote in message
> news:eGMH13SIJHA.2256@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> It was a joke, son.
>
> It wasn't aimed at you Daave, so much as it was to the others. I
> don't mind a "please consider bottom-posting" suggestion every now and
> then, but a childish rant about it using up valuable USENET space is
> annoying.

You see, the person you responded to, I assume, is someone I have
already killfiled, so I didn't see that post. And since you gave no
indication as to what the context was (you had snipped *everything*!),
it appeared that you were replying to PA Bear! Then Unknown chimed in
with a blank post. Damian came in with a silly rejoinder, and I was
replying directly to him with a wry comment of my own.

A bit of silliness for sure, but it helps divert my attention from much
more serious concerns.
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

And you're replying to...? (G*d, I hope it was me! I'll top-post if and
when I want to. If you don't like it, don't crosspost to MS newsgroups.)

Better to top-post than not quote! <eg>

Spin wrote:
> You all REALLY have to get over your hang up regarding top-posting.
> Extreme
> type-A personality meets anonymous USENET user = angry and childish
> responses. Personally, I don't do it anymore myself, cuz I don't want to
> hear people complain, but the MS Outlook Express default is to top-post
> the
> reply. If the question was short as well as the answer, the point is
> moot.
> The reader will differentiate between the OP and the reply by ">"
> characters...
 
Re: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgroup?

Wow: Neuschwanstein Castle

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<Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov> wrote in message
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> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Better to top-post than not quote! <eg>
>
>
> How is it a top post, if there is no quote...<BAG>
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